BimanGan is cofounder and chairman of Shanghai-listed Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 1998 Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals produces insulin and injection pens and is publicly traded. Gan graduated from Peking University and later became a teacher in the biology department. Gan holds a PhD from Michigan State University and worked for Merck before he … Read more
Ziv Aviram is the cofounder of autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye. He launched the company in 1999 with fellow billionaire Amnon Shashua a computer science professor at Hebrew University. The pair took Mobileye public in 2014 then sold it to Intel in 2017 at a $15.3 billion valuation. Aviram and Shashua also co-CEOs of Or-Cam … Read more
Romano Minozzi is the founder and president of Iris Ceramica Group a ceramics multinational based in central Italy. Minozzi derives most of his wealth from his stock holdings in Snam and Italgas two publicly traded natural gas companies in Italy. Minozzi cofounded Iris Group in 1961. While he still serves as the president of Iris … Read more
Bolivian-born Miguel Krigsner founded Grupo Boticario Brazil’s second-largest cosmetics company behind number one Natura. Grupo Boticario operates in cities around Brazil and seven other countries. Krigsner owns nearly 80% of the $1.15 billion (revenues) firm. His brother-in-law Artur Grynbaum joined as a financial assistant and worked his way up to CEO of the group. He … Read more
William Boyett (born December 21 1928) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Sgt. Stan Jablonski on the NBC police drama series Adam-12 and as Chief of Police Jesse Curry on the ABC crime drama series Dallas. Born in Akron Ohio Boyett served in the United States Marine Corps from 1946 … Read more
Vladimir Ashkenazy (born 1937) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He has been a resident of Switzerland since 1978. He was born in Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He first came to international attention as a pianist winning the silver medal in the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition. He made his conducting debut with … Read more
Fernando Roig owns ceramics firm Pamesa as well as a 9% stake in Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona. His billionaire brother Juan Roig is the majority shareholder of Mercadona which was founded by their parents in 1977. Juan and Fernando took over Mercadona with their sisters in 1981 when it was only an eight-store chain. Since … Read more
Eduard Kučera is the cofounder of Prague-based internet security company Avast Software. In 1988 he and Pavel Baudis with whom he’d worked at Research Institute of Mathematical Machines cofounded ALWIL to sell an antivirus software. Following the fall of Communism in 1989 the pair broke off to establish what would become Avast. Now run by … Read more
Victoria Shaw is an Australian actress who has starred in both television and film. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the popular Australian soap operas “Neighbours” and “Home and Away”. Victoria has also starred in a number of independent films including the award-winning “The Combination”. Want to more about Her? In this … Read more
Anthony Pritzker runs The Pritzker Group a private equity firm; his brother J.B. was involved until he became governor of Illinois in January 2019. The Pritzker Group owns and runs industrial firms particularly in the packaging sector. It also has a stake in Elon Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX. Tony is one of 11 billionaire heirs … Read more